Example sentences of "we have [been] [v-ing] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the lessons learned were , how to manage projects better than we 'd been managing projects before . |
| 2 | God in heaven , you 'd think we 'd been eating leftovers . |
| 3 | well you know we 've been reading stories , little ones , that was only two I could find but there were n't any stories |
| 4 | ‘ We 've been moving patients to other hospitals . |
| 5 | Every day this week we 've been printing stickers of the Grands Prix that Mansell won . |
| 6 | . We 've been discussing guests coming to stay at your place over Christmas . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've been taking statements all day , and have discovered certain — anomalies in yours which need sorting out . |
| 8 | So what we 've been doing is we 've been taking words and we 've been changing their appearance . |
| 9 | In fact , we in methodism we 've been ordaining women for the last twenty-five years , and it has become as natural as breathing to us . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've been controlling games and still letting goals in , ’ he conceded . |
| 11 | We 've been incurring costs on two fronts , redundancy and also reducing factory stocks , short time working and this has brought down margins and profits , but the cash flow 's improving and despite poor conditions in Europe and Japan er , volume and unit value of orders is er , increasing slowly . |
| 12 | ‘ The heavy rain after the dry weather we 've been having makes the roads more slippery , and drivers should slow down accordingly . |
| 13 | Indeed , we 've been running courses for several years now , both for primary and secondary level , to help those teachers who are particularly enthusiastic , and also to form a sort of resource for them . |
| 14 | ROS : Oh no — we 've been spinning coins for as long as I remember . |
| 15 | ‘ And you ca n't blame him for the way we 've been conceding goals . |
| 16 | That same floor we 've been crossing reaches right to here , one great caldarium , with that hypocaust deployed underneath it all the way . |
| 17 | Er Trading Standards Officers have been helping the police have made a large number of visits to sales in recent months targetting those where we know or suspect there will be concentration of counterfeiter goods and these stolen items we 've been taking and seizing items , we 've been making inspections and er we will also be distributing some leaflets to try and advise people of some of the risks and dangers that face them at this sort of event . |
| 18 | Quite a long time I would have start probably with more than thirty years ago , because me Mum always make cheese and I just thought making when I was still a girl at the school and since we came here and farmed on me own behalf well twenty six years we 've been making cheeses here . |
| 19 | We 've been making inquiries and learned that Mr Putt has been seen wearing one rather similar . |
| 20 | But I talked to psychologist about it , and she said it 's a lot more interesting than that , what you 're forgetting is , that change is usually perceived as criticism , what 's wrong with the way we 've been doing things . |
| 21 | I said , I said we 've been doing boundaries for the trial park today and they ran out of passes and gave us these and said they 'd be alright . |
| 22 | I er , in fact , we , yeah , we just had a problem yesterday , we started work for the Royal Scotsman and erm well we started work for them , like last year and we 've been doing jobs |
| 23 | ‘ If we 've been doing lessons all morning , they 've usually had enough by the afternoon , so we 'll sing some songs together or I 'll tell them a story . |
| 24 | As you 've heard we 've been cutting costs pretty significantly over the last couple of years erm what we 're talking about is three thousand people having been er made redundant over the two and a half years and as we were saying earlier substantial redundancy costs have had to be borne . |
| 25 | We had been exchanging enthusiasms for Italian opera and I was enticed by his collection of Caruso recordings . |
| 26 | ‘ What pleases me is the fact that we have been creating chances and I personally feel it will only be a matter of time before we get it right . ’ |
| 27 | In the preceding two chapters we have been developing ways in which questions of locale and locality can be systematically introduced into social theory . |
| 28 | Production finished at the end of May and since then , as you know , we have been moving broadlooms to Elderslie and some narrow looms to Runcorn . |
| 29 | For the last 60 years we have been organising holidays to Italy , and only to Italy . |
| 30 | In England , we have been taking steps through the Housing Corporation to increase the accountability of housing associations to their tenants by , for example , promoting tenant membership of management committees , and by requiring management committees to consult much more effectively . |